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kind of obsessed with the idea of the rest of the gaang leaving Toph and Zuko to watch over some cooking food and when they come back its burned and Katara starts fuming but Toph and Zuko are like “we’ve never stepped inside a kitchen in our lives and only have one eye between us, if anything it’s your fault”

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Is it ok to mock teenagers for bad/mediocre writing & artwork?

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Roy: Am I dramatic? Yes.

Roy: Is it justified?

Roy: Also yes.

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How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard. 

cr: 承启 建水紫陶

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Examples of Chekhov’s gun in Knives Out (2019)

Chekhov’s gun (Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.

“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”

“One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.“ - Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev, 1 November 1889.

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There also needs to be a button for “this is the 5000th time I’ve read your fic because I’m having a horrible day and this is the only thing in the world that always brings me happiness.”

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Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.

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Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho US (2019) dir. Jordan Peele Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson Ready Or Not (2019) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Hustlers (2019) dir. Lorene Scafaria

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I've seen some people use they/them for Crona but in the anime they use he/him. Was it a translating issue or does something happen later in the series that I'm unaware of?

I honestly don’t know

and there’s no exact confirmation of their gender, so I’m just referring to Crona as they/them, and Ohkubo constantly draw them in androginous way and even said their gender was ‘unknown’ so yeah

also I don’t recall the japanese version using ‘kare’ or ‘he’ when referring to Crona so idk? they mainly used the gender-neutral term like ‘aitsu’ (that person) or ‘ano ko’ (that child) for example

anyway I’m just more comfortable referring to Crona as they/them

y’know, kinda like Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist

also, Micah Solusod’s tweet:

maybe bc it was 2008 and singular ‘they/them’ just wasn’t that well-used as it is now?

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yesterday in my plant evolution lab we were talking about green algae (the hardcore beginning of all plant evolution) and we were like, looking at all these different kinds of important algae under microscopes and stuff and i had the pleasure of informing my professor about the existence of The Bubble. i only know about The Bubble bc whenever i bring algae up on this blog somebody sends me an ask asking if ive witnessed The Bubble, and if i know that The Bubble is one of the largest unicellular organisms on the planet and they kinda want to eat it/pop it/touch it, and the answer is that i have never seen it in person but i do indeed know about it and appreciate that it is huge and has unique siren-like capabilities in terms of making people want to eat it, pop it, or touch it just by looking at a picture of it. but anyway he was surprised by The Bubble and looked it up himself and was like ‘oh that’s in the sea lettuce class’ (Ulvophyceae). i was like, ‘wow thats some pretty weird lettuce lol’, and he was like, ‘more like a sea turnip’, and i was like, ‘more like the water balloon you break over your salad to make it kinda soggy’. i dont really have anywhere else to go with this post ive just been plagued with thoughts about The Bubble again

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Au where everything is the same but Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian are a boyband in their free time: The Batstreet Boys

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Are calzones just dry ravioli?

is a ravioli just a non-fruit-based turnover? is soup just non-dairy thin yogurt? are you just a meat donut? does everything have to be categorized as a derivative of something else? it’s all arbitrary. 

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Just thinking about “mad honey” for some reason

Image 1: Honey bees in northern Turkey (source) Image 2: Bee hives in northern Turkey (source) Image 3: “Deli bal” - the Turkish variety of “mad honey” (source) Image 4: Town in northern Turkey where honey is an important industry (source)

Deli bal - Hallucinogenic Turkish honey

An excerpt from Emma Bryce’s Modern Farmer piece on mad honey:

The dark, reddish, “mad honey,” known as deli bal in Turkey, contains an ingredient from rhododendron nectar called grayanotoxin — a natural neurotoxin that, even in small quantities, brings on light-headedness and sometimes, hallucinations. In the 1700s, the Black Sea region traded this potent produce with Europe, where the honey was infused with drinks to give boozers a greater high than alcohol could deliver. When over-imbibed, however, the honey can cause low blood pressure and irregularities in the heartbeat that bring on nausea, numbness, blurred vision, fainting, potent hallucinations, seizures, and even death, in rare cases. (…) “There are more than 700 different species [of rhododendron] in the world, but according to our knowledge just two or three include grayanotoxin in their nectars,” says SÁ¼leyman Turedi, a doctor at the Karadeniz Technical University School of Medicine in Trabzon, Turkey, who studies deli bal‘s effects and has witnessed more than 200 cases of mad honey poisoning. (…) Although the product makes up only a tiny percentage of the Black Sea’s honey production, it’s long held a strong Turkish following. “People believe that this honey is a kind of medicine,” Turedi says. “They use it to treat hypertension, diabetes mellitus and some different stomach diseases. And also, some people use deli bal to improve their sexual performance.” (…) The honey is taken in small amounts, sometimes boiled in milk, and consumed typically just before breakfast, he adds — not slathered on toast or stirred generously into tea the way normal honey would be. Its value to customers has given beekeepers an incentive to keep visiting those rhododendron fields and producing it alongside their normal honey products. (…) Indeed, in 67 B.C. Roman soldiers invaded the Black Sea region under General Pompey’s command, and those loyal to the reigning King Mithridates secretly lined the Romans’ path with enticing chunks of mad honeycomb. The unwitting army ate these with gusto, as the story goes. Driven into an intoxicated stupor by the hallucinogenic honey, many of the flailing soldiers became easy prey, and were slain.

– From Emma Bryce. “The Strange History of ‘Mad Honey.’“ In Modern Farmer, 4 September 2014.

Here’s a view of the rhododendron species that provides the local Turkish honey bees with the chemical source for mad honey:

The species is Rhododendron ponticum (image source). The flower is the source of the grayanotoxin that gives mad honey its intoxicating effects.

Notice how lush and humid this region is. The “Black Sea littoral zone” is a very narrow strip of land that runs along the Black Sea coastline in northern Turkey. The sea helps to moderate the area, so that the ecoregion is a highly-localized microclimate and is much more mild and wet than the rest of Turkey and the Caucasus, which are often defined by semi-arid or barren steppe.

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pacific rim was really like “our giant monster-killing robots are powered by the tender, intimate, powerful connection of soulmates - romantic, platonic, or familial” and i’ve never recovered from how the sheer brilliance of that concept made me feel